पावेल फ्रीडमैन

पावेल फ्रीडमैन (जनवरी 7, 1921 – सितम्बर 29, 1944) एक यहूदी कवि थे, जिन्हे उनकी कविता "द बटरफ्लाई" के लिए ख्याति मिली।

द बटरफ्लाई 
The Butterfly

The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
against a white stone. . . .

Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly 'way up high.
It went away I'm sure because it wished to
kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I've lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.

That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live in here,
in the ghetto.

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